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One of the most powerful, misunderstood and under-utilized tools for teaching 21st century skills, is the Creative Commons . Besides providing access to hundreds of thousands of media works that can be used to augment the creative process, the Creative Commons offers a legitimate way for students to license their own creative works, be they audio, video, text or hybrid products. 2 Creative Commons Toolkits Creative Commons International Licenses Creative Commons Content Directory 2 Great Places to Host and License Your Creative Work Flickr : a place to host and license photo collections Blip.tv : a place to host and license video productions 2 Video Explanations of The Creative Commons
14 Tools to Teach about Creative Commons
As an e-Learning consultant I was always a fan of open source software. Why? The answer is simple. Because I could use them as I wish, for whatever I wish, without long-term commitments and with the extra bonus of a community of professionals that use, extend and support them. In this post I am not going to talk about open source learning management systems such as eFront [1] but rather dedicated open source “authoring tools”.
Free and Open Source Authoring Tools for e-Learning
10 Open Education Resources You May Not Know About (But Should) | MindShift - StumbleUpon
Horla Varlan This week, the OCW Consortium is holding its annual meeting, celebrating 10 years of OpenCourseWare . The movement to make university-level content freely and openly available online began a decade ago, when the faculty at MIT agreed to put the materials from all 2,000 of the university’s courses on the Web. With that gesture, MIT OpenCourseWare helped launch an important educational movement, one that MIT President Susan Hockfield described in her opening remarks at yesterday’s meeting as both the child of technology and of a far more ancient academic tradition: “the tradition of the global intellectual commons.” We have looked here before at how OCW has shaped education in the last ten years, but in many ways much of the content that has been posted online remains very much “Web 1.0.”
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Xerte Online Toolkits is a server-based suite of tools for content authors. Elearning materials can be authored quickly and easily using browser-based tools, with no programming required. Xerte Online Toolkits is aimed at content authors, who will assemble content using simple wizards.
Xerte - Open Source E-Learning Developer Tools
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